I've been waiting for the Rolands to become available, so I've only just ordered and received my new arrivals from the latest series (plus a couple of others naturally).
I bought them from a popular UK retailer for WoG, and when they arrived the packing of the items for shipping left something to be desired.
I can't work out it they shifted in transit, or were just packed astoundingly badly, but one of D.VIIs was positioned bulging out from the parcel, so that its box had been very badly crushed, so much so that plastic inner had been forced partially out of the cardboard box.
It is a tribute to whoever designed, implemented and approved the WoG packaging that the model was completely undamaged.
Not for the first time, I have thought it remarkable that these relatively delicate little animals move round the world so unscathed.
Well done to those people; I raise a glass to you.
And then, naturally, I noticed how delightful the aircraft are in person.
Again not for the first time, I thought how the pictures on the Ares website do not really do justice the genuine article.
It's not that the pictures are not excellent; indeed they are. If anything their accuracy is a little unflattering, makes them appear larger, and therefore cruder somehow.
When they arrive in one's hand there is something magical about the how the details combine with size and shape to make them look just right.
I'm particularly struck by how pleasing the DH4s are, compared to their image; and also the Tripes which I've just bought for the first time.
In my opinion, another triumph.
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